Could you explain ?
The video is not working with me .But i am interested .
It is, essentially, a local news host who (presumably with his crew) put together some interesting sound bites about how Obamacare (or the Affordable Healthcare Act) doesn't make sense and is confusing people... to include the President and our Congress.
To start with - Obama originally began his ascent through democratic primaries by saying he did not support a mandate on health insurance (saying it would be 'like trying to end homelessness by mandating everyone buy a house"). Romney, on the other hand, started by saying he did support a mandate on health insurance (such as in his home state). Then the two swapped places during the campaign - Obama ran his entire campaign on mandatory health insurance coverage while Romney ran against it.
Then we have our population, which doesn't quite understand the difference between Obamacare and the "Affordable Health Care Act." ... That is to say... they don't understand that they are the same thing. When asked: "Would you rather have Obamacare or the Affordable Health Care Act" - people say they want the ACA 'because it will be more affordable.'
Which means they have no idea what is in the law.
And neither do our elected representatives.
The bill was passed using a process known as 'reconciliation' - where the House and Senate vote separately on two separate pieces of legislation. Then the two are, effectively, stapled together and sent to the President - who would be stupid to sign it, because it is 6,000 pages long.
Yet our President signed it.
So it became law despite the fact that there probably does not exist a single individual on the face of this planet who has read and properly understood everything that is in it.
Not that it matters. The law empowers the Department of Health and Human Services to make up many of the points of regulation and procedures - which means much of the law's effects are decided by officials who are not in an elected office.
Regardless - the law does stipulate that people must have health insurance (if they meet certain income criteria) at a certain date - or incur a fine. The fine for the first year is around $70 - so it is negligible. Then it jumps up to hundreds of dollars per year. The IRS has been empowered to collect this fine.
Which means that if you don't pay your fine for not having insurance, and the federal government thinks you make enough that you should have insurance - your wages will be garnished, bank accounts frozen, etc. I suspect it will end up being nearly impossible to enforce, practically (so in two years, people will probably turn around and say I was full of it) - but, legally, that is what can happen. More than likely, they will just deduct it from your income tax return.
Because the entire process for Obamacare doesn't work - as in - no one has actually been able to -pay- insurance companies for the insurance that they allegedly enrolled in (they have no way of confirming their enrollment) - Obama has decided to delay what is known as the "Individual Mandate" - the date by which you must prove you have health insurance or incur a fine.
That would be like your state legislature passing a funding bill for schools, and the governor saying: "Yeah... I'm the governor... and I'm going to do that because the sales tax would go up right around Christmas... so I'm delaying the sales tax until March of next year." Which is not what the law says.
Similarly - Obama has authorized exemptions for numerous companies and government contractors from the Employer Mandate (that employers must offer health insurance to employees working over a certain amount of time).
Honestly, it is absolutely hilarious - because this is -exactly- what 'we' (conservatives and libertarians) were saying would happen with this law when it was proposed 6 years ago. And we were slandered like hell for it. The Obama administration even went so far as to compile a record of e-mail addresses from people who were spreading 'false' information about 'Obamacare.' Basically - if you had a friend who was "misinformed" - you could register his/her e-mail address to receive e-mail from the White House.
It's delightfully Orwellian.
Where I work is already feeling the crunch. I work in Dialysis - normally, people with kidney failure die. Where I work makes life for these people possible because we have equipment and machines capable of cleaning the blood. Many of our patients have no choice but medicare (or some charity organization). When your kidneys stop working - it's kind of hard to maintain a job when you have to go sit in a chair for 3-4 hours and have your blood run through a machine (A home form of Dialysis called "PD" can be done overnight while one sleeps - but Americans have never been too privy to the idea - though it is all some other countries can afford).
But Medicare is expanding its demands upon the medical field without increasing monetary compensation. Medications used to be considered separate and paid for separately by patients. Now, anything related to Dialysis treatment, we have to pay for (but our payment per treatment is not increasing from medicare).
We have no choice but to start going through our patients with a fine-toothed comb and find out whether or not the medications they have been prescribed have to do with Dialysis, and it is going to become a bit of a fight for those patients to have those medications prescribed to them (by us).
Simply put - we just got told we had to spend more money to take care of patients but told we weren't getting any more money.
This, while they talk of raising our nation's minimum wage. Frankly, we'd have to eliminate positions. Which means lower technician-to-patient ratios. It also means increased costs at all ends for us.
We already have difficulty with staff retention because other Dialysis centers (that throw people out for missing payments) will pay higher wages. We will have no choice but to strip our staff to its bones and the care becomes disorganized... or ignore maintenance on our buildings. Either way - if that were to progress, the State would eventually come in and shut us down for not meeting regulations.
They enacted laws without regard for the consequences that would logically follow. It is why our nation is in the mess it is.
